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dpkg is the base of the Debian package management system. It was created by Ian Jackson in 1993; it is similar to RPM. It is used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages.
dpkg itself is a low level tool; additional higher level front ends are required to fetch packages from remote locations or resolve complex conflicts in the package dependencies. Debian provides apt for this purpose.
See also: List of Unix programs
Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dpkg."
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